On 10/4/2014 10:57 AM, Janet Bostwick wrote:
> On Sat, 04 Oct 2014 06:41:47 -0400, jmcquown >
> wrote:
>
>> On 10/4/2014 6:16 AM, Janet wrote:
>>> In article >,
>>> says...
>>>>
>>>> On 10/3/2014 4:59 PM, Kalmia wrote:
>>>>> Reading a novel set in Sussex - author has referred a few times to 'crisps'
>>>>> as something commonly eaten. Are these what we Yanks call potato chips, or French fries? Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>> You got the answer to that - potato chips.
>>>>
>>>>> I love some of the other terms - like 'garage drive' for.... 'driveway'?
>>>>>
>>>> I'd like to know what the heck is a drop kerb/curb? I know what a curb
>>>> is (however you choose to spell it) but what is it when it's prefaced by
>>>> the word drop?
>>>
>>> a kerb that's been lowered to make level access between the vehicle road
>>> and a pedestrian pavement.
>>>
>>> pic
>>>
>>> http://www.eastdunbarton.gov.uk/cont...ets/roads_and_
>>> pavements/vehicle_access___dropped_kerbs.aspx
>>>
>>> In UK nearly all public roads in inhabited areas, have adjacent
>>> pedestrian pavements, divided from the vehicle-road by a kerb about 3
>>> inches high. The kerb also allows rainfall (relatively heavy here) to
>>> run off the pavement into the roadside gutter and be drained away down
>>> sewers back to waterways.
>>>
>>> Wherever car parks, businesses or homes have a vehicle or foot access
>>> across a pavement to a road, (say, from a home driveway) the kerb is
>>> dropped so the pavement slopes to meat the road.
>>> This reduces damage to tyres and means that pedestrians crossing the
>>> access can push a pram, drive a wheelchair/disability buggy etc
>>> smoothly without having to go over a 3" ledge.
>>>
>>> Janet UK
>>>
>>>
>> Thank you, and Cherry, too. We just call them driveways. We don't
>> have a separate name for it.
>>
>> Jill
>
> 'Curb-cut'
> Janet US
>
Huh. Never heard that one before!

Jill